2014-06-01
Original: 2014-06-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: SCIENCE TIP
Subtitle: MAKE A PAPER SOUND BETTER BY REFERENCING MUCH OLDER WORK
Panel 1 (teal header bar): BORING PAPER:
ABSTRACT: WE PRESENT ADDITIONAL CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS WORK PERTAINING TO THE COMPOSITION OF REGOLITH.
(Below the abstract are two columns of illegible scribbled placeholder text representing the body of the paper.)
Panel 2 (yellow header bar): EXCITING PAPER:
ABSTRACT: WE COMPLETELY OVERTURN THE PREVIOUSLY HELD THEORY THAT THE MOON IS A GIANT OX CHASED ACROSS THE SKY BY EVIL DOGS.
(Below the abstract are two columns of illegible scribbled placeholder text representing the body of the paper.)
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
For any agriculture paper:
Abstract: We have overturned Lysenkoism!
Subtitle: MAKE A PAPER SOUND BETTER BY REFERENCING MUCH OLDER WORK
Panel 1 (teal header bar): BORING PAPER:
ABSTRACT: WE PRESENT ADDITIONAL CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS WORK PERTAINING TO THE COMPOSITION OF REGOLITH.
(Below the abstract are two columns of illegible scribbled placeholder text representing the body of the paper.)
Panel 2 (yellow header bar): EXCITING PAPER:
ABSTRACT: WE COMPLETELY OVERTURN THE PREVIOUSLY HELD THEORY THAT THE MOON IS A GIANT OX CHASED ACROSS THE SKY BY EVIL DOGS.
(Below the abstract are two columns of illegible scribbled placeholder text representing the body of the paper.)
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
For any agriculture paper:
Abstract: We have overturned Lysenkoism!
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic headed SCIENCE TIP: MAKE A PAPER SOUND BETTER BY REFERENCING MUCH OLDER WORK. The first panel, labeled BORING PAPER in a teal bar, shows an abstract reading: WE PRESENT ADDITIONAL CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS WORK PERTAINING TO THE COMPOSITION OF REGOLITH, followed by squiggly placeholder body text. The second panel, labeled EXCITING PAPER in a yellow bar, shows the same kind of layout but a far more dramatic abstract: WE COMPLETELY OVERTURN THE PREVIOUSLY HELD THEORY THAT THE MOON IS A GIANT OX CHASED ACROSS THE SKY BY EVIL DOGS. The joke is that pitting your dull modern findings against an ancient myth makes the paper sound revolutionary. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn note reading For any agriculture paper: Abstract: We have overturned Lysenkoism!
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.